My dear friends
Check this…
Luke.21
33] Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
34] “But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;
35] for it will come upon all who dwell upon the face of the whole earth.
36] But watch at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man.”
Luke.12
16] And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully;
17] and he thought to himself,
What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?' **18**] And he said, I will do this: I will pull down my barns, and build larger ones; and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19] And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’
20] But God said to him, `Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
21] So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
The guiding principle here and in many places is that God wants us sober. No matter what the intoxicating drug is sobriety is what God wants. Marijuana is a narcotic and hallucinogenic and you won’t have this sobriey God wants if you smoke it.
Can anyone name any prophet, pope, father, doctor of the church or any of the 10,000 odd canonised saints who did not practise and preach the importance of sobriety?
I doubt we can name one who though they did drink a bit occasionally was not a sober person. Not one.
God bless and peace to you all:thumbsup:
